• DOI:10.1525/MAQ.1987.1.4.02A00020
Corpus ID: 73320378

On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America

@article{Foster1987OnTO,
  title={On the Origin of Humoral Medicine in Latin America},
  author={G. M. Foster},
  journal={Medical Anthropology Quarterly},
  year={1987},
  volume={1},
  pages={355-393}
}

• G. M. Foster
• Published 1987
• Sociology
• Medical Anthropology Quarterly

For the past half-century humoral medicine has been recognized by anthropologists to be the most important and widespread ethnomedical system in Latin America. While most scholars believe this system is largely a simplified folk variant of classical Greek and Persian humoral pathology, a small minority—particularly Audrey Butt Colson and Alfredo Lopez Austin—argues for a New World origin. In this paper the author supports the former hypothesis by tracing the well-documented history of classical… Expand

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